"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
-Marian Wright Edelman
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"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."
-Marian Wright Edelman
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"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree."
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"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."
-Marian Wright Edelman
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"The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about."
-Marian Wright Edelman
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"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children."
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"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
-J. K. Rowling
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes
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"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
-John Lennon
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"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."
-H. P. Lovecraft
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"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."
-Joseph Heller
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
-Les Brown
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